Books like The lions of Al-Rassan

The lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay reads as melancholic, epic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

An arrow's flight

Mark Merlis · 1998

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Lovely War

Julie Berry · 2019

Shares the romance + vornate thread

75% genome match

The bronze horseman

Paullina Simons · 2000

Shares the romance + vornate thread

70% genome match

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare · 1600

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Snow Queen

Joan D. Vinge · 1980

Shares the vornate thread

71% genome match

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Eva Luna

Isabel Allende · 1987

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Two Noble Kinsmen

John Fletcher · 1634

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

L' Orlando furioso

Lodovico Ariosto · 1545

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Love in a fallen city

Zhang Ailing · 1985

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The passion

Jeanette Winterson · 1987

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer · 1483

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match